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1) John O'Callaghan is an Irish DJ, mainly producing electronic music. He also produces music under the alias of Joint Operations Centre, Mannix and Stenna. He has also collaborated with fellow Discover artists such as Bryan Kearney, Neal Scarborough (as Inertia), Thomas Bronzwaer (as Lost World) and Greg Downey. His best known track is Big Sky, done with vocalist Audrey Gallagher, formerly of the 90's alt-rock band Scheer.

The English conductor Edward Higginbottom's early years were marked by distinction as a keyboard player. He gained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists before leaving school, winning the Harding and Read prizes for the most outstanding candidate of the year. A long association with Corpus Christi College Cambridge followed, beginning with an organ scholarship (winning the John Stewart of Rannoch university prize in Sacred Music), continuing with graduate work and a doctoral thesis on French baroque music, and ending with a research fellowship (1973-76).

Mezzo-soprano Christine Rice studied at the Royal Northern College of Music. She’s sung at a variety of venues in the UK, Europe and North America, including the BBC Promenade Concerts, the Edinburgh Festival, Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, the Teatro Real Madrid and Seattle Opera.

Harold Arlen (February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986)
Was an American composer of popular music. Having written over 400 songs, a number of which have become known the world over, Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook. His 1938 song "Over the Rainbow” was voted the twentieth century's No. 1 song by the Recording Industry Association of America Biography Arlen was born Hyman Arluck, in Buffalo, New York, the child of a Jewish cantor.

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